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milky

[mil-kee] / ˈmɪl ki /


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Although adding milk can cool drinks down slightly, a milky tea or coffee may still be far too hot, researchers say.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

When these organisms multiply in enormous numbers during late spring and early summer, their reflective shells scatter sunlight and give the ocean a milky blue appearance that is visible even from space.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

Not cloying, not milky, not trying to be liked by everyone at the bake sale.

From Salon Mar. 5, 2026

A decade later, a couple of Italian landscapes similarly turn complex space into milky planes kept parallel to the surface of the canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 3, 2026

He could smell the child: a milky smell, like chocolate chip cookies, and the sour tang of a wet, disposable, nighttime diaper.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Anna Simonovsky, 32, said that her upper limit had gone from $7 for a latte -- a milkier, frothier drink than a cortado -- to as much as $10.

From Barron's Oct. 18, 2025

It makes for a slightly firmer, milkier kugel with a mild tang.

From Seattle Times Dec. 18, 2022

Every imaginable type of chocolate chips are available now, from bittersweet and dark to sweeter and milkier.

From Salon Dec. 10, 2022

This soup mix from Hokkaido is ideal for those who prefer something sweeter and milkier.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2022

Namely, that the putative crème de la crème impart their enriching essence to the milkier orders.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

But if you use the milkiest, silkiest ricotta you can get and break out an olive oil with personality and zip, you’ll end up with a memorable dinner that’s so easy it practically makes itself.

From New York Times May 27, 2022

Would not be good-looking but for the lower half of his face; that mouth really beautiful, tenderly curved and sensitive, and constantly showing an even row of the milkiest teeth in the world.

From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

The very milkiest word in his mind at the time was the word vulgarity.

From Active Service by Stephen Crane

Surely the softest and milkiest stone that ever was quarried, received that likeness of Miss Pupford! 

From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Charles Dickens




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